Evolving standards in the moral case for war.
“War is not all upside. It involves huge economic and moral costs. It is a systematic campaign of the destruction of capital, infrastructure, and human life in direct violation of national sovereignty. If you’re an uber-Libertarian, it may also bother you that war often involves the state sending its own citizens (and their financial resources) to fight and die on foreign soils based on a policy decided by a very few individuals. Hundreds of thousands of people will be reasonably expected to perish in a protracted campaign, mostly in the country we are “freeing.” This is irrespective of whatever moral justification the aggressor nation settles on to rationalize the pursuit. These costs must be subtracted from the benefits. Often the benefits never accrue because the hubris of nation building is terribly ill-founded. Yet that there will be costs is certain.”
Foooozbawl. (Taken with Instagram at Top of the Hill Back Bar)
Two Taco Bell breakfast tweets. Meme?
All Together Now
“Finance is a critical function in today’s complex global economy. It is clear it stumbled badly in performing its basic function, and it seems beyond argument that it has far outgrown its proper place in the socioeconomic sphere and its share, deserved and undeserved, of the economic pie. But I find it hard to imagine any meaningful function performed by the financial system which can be purified into a transparent, corruption-free zone.”
Franklin. (Taken with instagram)
Hapiness. Money buys it.
m.guardian.co.uk
“I am really, really happy to have done this for a few years. Very proud to have survived among the best and brightest. It’s like bootcamp in the army. I am coming out of this much stronger. It pushed me to go back to the basics; to what is really important for me, as a human being. I have discovered what my values are, and now I am acting on them. I am leaving banking.”
Hilarious.
via Wonkette
What was I thinking? (Taken with instagram)
Kevyy. (Taken with instagram)
